This is little-known story from the Pentagon on 09/11/2001:
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During a visit with a fellow chaplain, who happened to be
assigned to the Pentagon, I had a chance to hear a first-hand account of an
incident that happened right after Flight 77 hit the Pentagon. The chaplain
told me what happened at a daycare center near where the impact occurred.
This daycare had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs.
The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to
evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do. There were many children,
mostly toddlers, as well as the infants that would need to be taken out
with the cribs.

There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and
strollers. Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked
what they needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do,
he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought,
'well, there we are—on our own.'

About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 other
Marines in tow. Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest
started gathering up toddlers. The director and her staff then helped them
take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the
Potomac and the Pentagon. Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the
building, the Marines stopped in the park, and then did a fabulous thing -
they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy,
like the covered wagons in the Old West. Inside this circle of cribs, they
put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off. Outside this circle
were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waiting
for instructions. There they remained until the parents could be notified
and come get their children..

The chaplain then said, "I don't think any of us saw nor
heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible
story of our men there. There wasn't a dry eye in the room. The thought of
those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted; could we expect
any less from them? It was one of the most touching stories from the
Pentagon.

Remember Ronald Reagan's great compliment: "Most of us wonder
if our lives made any difference. Marines don't have that problem."

God Bless the USA , our troops, and you.
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